Splunk and SolarWinds released security updates this week for vulnerabilities that allow code execution, privilege escalation, denial-of-service (DoS) and information disclosure. The article does not report exploitation in the wild. Splunk's updates cover Splunk Enterprise and Splunk SOAR, and SolarWinds fixed flaws in Observability and P…
Google promoted Chrome 156 to the stable channel for Windows, macOS and Linux on October 20, 2026, fixing 353 vulnerabilities, six of them critical (gbhackers.com, securityweek.com). The critical flaws are five memory corruption bugs and one use-after-free in Accessibility. Most of the 353 are memory safety issues: 163 memory corruption b…
Threat actors are abusing the open source AI platform Cairn, an agent-coordination engine usable as an autonomous penetration testing tool, to automate attacks on hundreds of websites worldwide. AI security firm Norforge found the activity after threat actors left their Cairn panels exposed, following a Gambit Security report on attackers…
Between April and July 2026, the threat actor UNC7017 tampered with the AOMEI Backupper update infrastructure several times to deliver the CrossRoad downloader and the ShinyRoad modular backdoor. Each tampering window lasted only five to ten minutes before reverting to authentic files. This made the campaign hard to detect and suggests it…
Paradigm Healthcare Services, a San Francisco-based billing processor for Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) under a data use agreement with the California DHCS, told the US HHS that a breach affected more than 970,000 people. The company detected unauthorized access to its local network on October 13, 2025. It determined only on Au…
An unauthorized party used a compromised login credential to access a file transfer (SFTP) site belonging to Educational Testing Service (ETS) and copy files containing California public school student data, according to the California Department of Education (CDE). ETS supports the state's CAASPP and ELPAC assessment programs. Access occ…
Cisco's Open Source Snort 3 engineering team released software hardening updates for multiple vulnerabilities found during an internal security review, as part of Cisco's October 21, 2026 advisory bundle. The issues are grouped by Common Weakness Enumeration class, with one CVE ID per group. CVE-2026-20043 covers out-of-bounds writes (CWE…
Oracle released its October 2026 Critical Patch Update on October 20, the final quarterly update of the year. It delivers 1,295 security patches for 1,209 unique CVEs across 33 product families (tenable.com, securityweek.com). The patch count is higher than the CVE count because one CVE can appear in several product matrices (gbhackers.co…